Open Access for Physics Journals: What are your options?

There are many options within Elsevier Physics to publish your next article open access. Most of our journals are either full open access or offer an open access option. Access to quality research is vital to the scientific community and beyond. We support sustainable access and work hard to provide a range of open access options alongside our access initiatives to ensure everyone can read, use and trust the latest research.

Elsevier's open access options:

Open access articles Over 1600 established journals support authors who want to publish their article open access

Green open access Authors can share their research in a variety of ways with the wider public

Most of our journals offer the option to publish your article open access and make them immediately and permanently freely available on ScienceDirect to subscribers and non-subscribers. To find out more, visit the individual journals' homepages. Find out more about open access at Elsevier by visiting elsevier.com/open-access.

Open Access Physics Journals

Heliyon is an online only, fully open access journal published by Elsevier. We publish quality original research across all disciplines. Since Heliyon’s scope includes any research discipline, all technically and ethically sound research will find a home at the journal.

This journal focuses on the domain of high energy physics, quantum field theory, statistical systems, and mathematical physics, and includes four main sections: high energy physics - phenomenology, high energy physics - theory, high energy physics - experiment, and quantum field theory, statistical systems, and mathematical physics.

Part of the SCOAP3 initiative. SCOAP3 is a new initiative to help facilitate open access publishing in the High Energy Physics community. Elsevier is an active participator in this initiative and articles funded by SCOAP3 will be published open access in perpetuity, under a CC-BY license. Authors will not need to pay any fees to publish in a SCOAP3 journal.

The aim of Photoacoustics is to publish original research and review contributions within the fast growing field of photoacoustics (optoacoustics) and thermoacoustics, which exploits optically and electromagnetically excited acoustical and thermal phenomena for visualization and characterization of a variety of materials and biological tissues, including living organisms.

Part of the SCOAP3 initiative. SCOAP3 is a new initiative to help facilitate open access publishing in the High Energy Physics community. Elsevier is an active participator in this initiative and articles funded by SCOAP3 will be published open access in perpetuity, under a CC-BY license. Authors will not need to pay any fees to publish in a SCOAP3 journal.

Reviews in Physics journal publishes review papers on topics in all areas of (applied) physics. The journal provides a platform for researchers who wish to summarize a field of physics research and share this work as widely as possible.

Results in Physics offers authors the opportunity to publish in all fundamental and interdisciplinary areas of physics, materials science, and applied physics. Papers of a theoretical, computational, and experimental nature are all welcome.

SoftwareX aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today's research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all research domains. Moreover, SoftwareX also aims to stress the importance of the software developers who are, in part, responsible for this impact.